Also:
Sean Spicer apologises for Hitler remarks
amid series of gaffes(Sydney Morning Herald) Apr 12 - White House press secretary Sean Spicer, besieged by widespread
condemnation and calls for his resignation, made a televised apology on Tuesday
afternoon for a baffling series of gaffes in which he favourably compared Adolf
Hitler to President Bashar al-Assad, and claimed the Nazi leader had not used
chemical weapons against his own people.

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The White House forgets the Holocaust
(again) (The Guardian,
Australia) Apr 12 – (Opinion: Timothy Snyder) In a press conference on Tuesday, Sean
Spicer claimed before an incredulous room of journalists that Hitler did not
use chemical agents to kill people during the Second World War.

US drops ’mother of all bombs’ on Islamic
State in Afghanistan(Sydney Morning Herald) Apr 14 - Washington: The United States dropped a massive GBU-43 bomb, the
largest non-nuclear bomb it has ever used in combat, in eastern Afghanistan on
Thursday against a series of caves used by Islamic State militants, the
military said.

Also:
’We’ve been waiting months to use it’ (The Australian) Apr 14 - The US military dropped the largest non-nuclear bomb in its arsenal, ’the
mother of all bombs’ on IS tunnel complex.

Trump the orthodox Republican (The Australian) Apr 14 – (Opinion: Rhys Blakely) Before he was president Donald Trump said he
would “bomb the shit” out of IS. This is one campaign pledge he kept.

Who are the new jihadis? (The Guardian, Australia) Apr 14 – (Opinion: Olivier Roy) Biographies of ’homegrown’ European
terrorists show they are violent nihilists who adopt Islam, rather than
religious fundamentalists who turn to violence

God save us all from the dangers of this
intense religious fervour (The
Guardian, Australia) Apr 14 – (Opinion: Giles Fraser) Last Sunday, as the blood of Egyptian
Christians was being wiped from the church floor, tens of thousand of us were
walking down from the Mount of Olives, following as much as possible the
footsteps of Jesus on his final entry into Jerusalem.

Queensland believers gather to mark Easter
Sunday (Brisbane Times) Apr 16 - Christian worshippers have turned out in droves to mark Easter Sunday
in Brisbane, as religious leaders urge them to stave off fear and absorb the
hopeful message of the resurrection.